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Photo: A rock and a soft spot

Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoChris Russell | DispatchD’Angelo Thigpen, a senior studying criminology at Ohio State University, practices his “bouldering” moves at the school’s Adventure Recreation Center on Woody Hayes Drive. Bouldering is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to short climbs over a crash pad, called a “bouldering mat,” so that a fall will not result in serious injury.